About Us
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
Pharmacy Buyer
Responsible for providing efficient, cost-effective, and consistent purchase management of pharmaceuticals and other supplies and materials. Provides inventory control while maintaining the availability of drugs needed for patient care.
Responsibilities:
• Checks medication, IV fluid, and supply stock daily, and orders accordingly based on buying and delivery schedules.
• Places orders for main pharmacy, pharmacy satellite areas and ancillary departments.
• Maintains and monitors wholesaler electronic ordering system to create and place orders daily.
• Uses split billing software daily to comply with 340b program requirements and ensure medications are ordered on appropriate accounts.
• Actively participates in inventory management and assigns par levels in collaboration with pharmacy managers.
• Maintains stock shelves with current identification name and order number.
• Ensures all new medications have been added to necessary computer systems.
• Manages medication backorders and recalls. Meets with managers to review on a regular basis.
• Processes product recalls and ensures all recalled products are removed and returned in a timely manner.
• Works with pharmacy managers to evaluate order quantities and ordering information of all routine and special request (non-formulary) items.
• Maintains purchase logs.
• Reviews and reconciles borrow and loan transactions with outside facilities and maintains list of approved and restricted facilities.
• Maintains pricing tool and responds to requests for billing audit information
• Performs other related duties as required and directed.
Prepares and labels chemotherapy agents
Equal Opportunity Employer
McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.
